


“This means one click to communicate, one click to conference, one click to collaborate.” “Together, we are offering the extensive breadth of capabilities of our respective technologies to deliver a truly unified communications and collaboration solution to help our customers improve business productivity,” said Stephen Elop, president, Microsoft Business Division, Microsoft. HP and Microsoft share a vision for business productivity solutions built on open, software-based platforms that work with the applications and systems people know and use today. “We provide customers with solutions that are rich, intuitive and accessible from anywhere on nearly any device.” “Customers can lower costs and rapidly enhance employee productivity with unified communications and collaboration from HP and Microsoft,” said Ann Livermore, executive vice president, Technology Solutions Group, HP. According to an independent report from Forrester Research, 84 percent of enterprises in North America and Europe are currently evaluating, piloting or implementing unified communications and collaboration solutions, and the market is expected to grow at a rate of 35.9 percent through 2015. HP and Microsoft also plan to provide the flexibility and control customers need to manage their communications infrastructure efficiently.ĭemand for unified communications and collaboration technologies is growing rapidly. This would be accomplished by streamlining communications across messaging, video and voice with connected applications and devices. The solution, which is planned to span software, hardware, networking and services, would enable customers to improve business output and reduce travel, telecom and IT operating costs.
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HP and Microsoft Expand Alliance in Unified Communications and CollaborationĪt Interop Las Vegas 2009, HP and Microsoft today announced a four-year strategic global initiative to deliver an end-to-end unified communications and collaboration solution.Īs part of their Frontline Partnership, the two companies expect to invest up to an additional $180 million in product development, professional services, as well as joint sales and marketing, to help organizations lower costs and improve productivity.
